Bill Dicken's Style!!

I'm trying to dig this monsterous person's style!!!
i was working on Victor wooten's techniques.. and and Bill Dickens came along!! if anyone could give me advice on Bill the Buddha's style and technique that i might be able to work on..

Last time i posted up a thread having some questions on Victor Wooten's styles everyone was
so~~ nice and supportive. People like me living in overseas where i cannot catch a lot of good shows..(i'm korean, i live in south Korea) i would
have to rely on the internet to find answers for these questions..^^
welll....god bless this awesome site~~!!!

bill has a couple instructional bass videos....yes, he's a beast...even after having taken several years off from playing bass to do some producing and stuff...really cool guy, too he answers his email

His four videos are the best way I've found of hearing his music. His newer "Funk Bass" video in particular shows a lot of the techniques he uses (all for slap, BTW). Basically, he uses a lot of left-to-right hand rhythmic movements to facilitate faster playing. He also uses, at most times anyway, all the fingers on his plucking hand to play faster and reduce hand strain. The greatest thing about them is watching what he looked like in the old ones and what he looks like now....definitely a change for the better. There are sound clips at video streams of him at www.billthebuddhadickens.com, but the streams take forever to download.

Originally posted by diff His four videos are the best way I've found of hearing his music. His newer "Funk Bass" video in particular shows a lot of the techniques he uses (all for slap, BTW). Basically, he uses a lot of left-to-right hand rhythmic movements to facilitate faster playing. He also uses, at most times anyway, all the fingers on his plucking hand to play faster and reduce hand strain. The greatest thing about them is watching what he looked like in the old ones and what he looks like now....definitely a change for the better. There are sound clips at video streams of him at www.billthebuddhadickens.com, but the streams take forever to download.

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Speaking of his old videos. I don't know if the new ones are any better but his teaching was horrible on the old ones. He just bumbles around a lot, does something fast, does it slow, and then tells some story about when he was in high school. It's kind of funny.

Ah, those old videos...Wooten has some funny/cheesy moments in his first video too.

I've got both sets, and he's definitely less of a bumbling goofball in the newer ones. Of course, that might be because drummer Bobby Rock is right there the whole time asking him specific questions and guiding him along.